The undermanned Portland Trail Blazers shocked the NBA world on Sunday night by taking down the Minnesota Timberwolves after being listed at the spread at +19.5 pre-game. It is officially the largest moneyline win by an ATS underdog since 1993 when the Mavericks beat the SuperSonics as 19.5-point dogs. If you are a regular Dimers visitor, you would know that our predictive analytics model picked the Blazers at +1400 to win the game on Sunday, but for those of you who missed out, all you can do now is sit and read as we take you back through some of the most improbable shocks with the top 10 sporting up sets of all-time.
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The Top 10 Sporting Upsets of All-Time
Even though the USA men's national basketball team tasted gold for a 16th time at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, it wasn't the usual easy road to begin with.
Opening the campaign with some exhibition games in Las Vegas, almost everyone expected the US – who had held a 52-2 record in exhibitions since 1992 – to walk all over their opponents. That was until Nigeria came along. Despite the Nigerians having seven NBA-listed players on their Olympics roster, they still entered the exhibition with Gregg Popovich's men at +1700 underdog. It didn't matter. As the old saying goes, a champion team beats a team of champions, and the Nigerians took advantage of a USA team still trying to figure things out to run out 90-87 winners.
While the loss was by far the most shocking, it wasn't the only defeat the US suffered, going down to Australia two nights later and again to France in the opening game of the Olympics. Thankfully Team USA was able to rebound, smoking the competition from there on out to exact their revenge on the French in the Gold Medal Game.
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The Washington Nationals had to do it the hard way to win their first ever World Series in 2019 against the powerhouse Houston Astros.
Entering the playoffs with a modest 93-69 record, the Nats matched up in the World Series with the dominant 107-55 Astros. While Washington raced to a 2-0 lead in the series, they dropped their next three to find themselves just one game away from a Houston title.